Package tie



G. W. STOUT.

. PACKAGE TIE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 4, |9|9.

1,418,743. V Patented June 6, 1922 ATTORNEYS.

GEORGE W. STOUT, O MERGHANTVILLE, NEYV JERSEY.

PACKAGE TIE.

narrates.

Application filed September 4, 1919.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE 1V. Sroirr, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of Merchantville and county of Camden, State of NewJersey, have invented a new and useful Package Tie, of which thefollowin is a specification.

y invention consists of a novel construction of a package tie comprisinga body portion having an eye therein for the reception of the end of thetying cord, there being an oblique passage extending into the body ofthe tie from one edge thereof, and a passage from said eye leading tosaid oblique passage, which latter terminates at about the center of thetie body and is provided with a curved portion which terminates inconverging walls, which meet at an angle which co-operates with a recessin the opposite side edge of the tie body, whereby the end of the tyingcord after being wrapped around the package or bundle is engaged in sucha manner that the package tied can not become untied under anyconditions.

For the purpose of illustrating my inven tion, I have shown in theaccompanying drawings, forms thereof which are at present preferred byme, since they will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results.It is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which myinvention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that myinvention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization ofthes instrumentalities as herein shown and described.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a package tie embodying myinvention, showing the manner of manipulating and tying the tying cord.

Figure 2 represents a section on line 22 Figure 1.

Figure 3 represents a plan view of the package tie body in detachedposition.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures.

Referring to the drawings V 1 designates my novel construction of apackage tie,Tthe same being provided with the ends or end edges2, andthe sides or side edges 3 and 4:, and being composed of vulcanizedfibre, thin sheet metal, or the like.

5 designates an oblique slotwhich enters the edge 3 and terminates aboutthe middle of the tie body in the recess 6, a portion of Specificationof Letters Patent.

Patented Juno 6, 1922.

Serial No. senses.

which is are shaped and provided with walls 7 and 8 which meet at thepoint or apex 9.

10 designates an eye formed on about the longitudinal median line of thetie body, towards the end 2 thereof from which eye extends the slot orpassage 11, which meets or merges into the oblique slot or passage 5.The edge t of the body 2 has a. recess 12 therein, which is locatedabout midway of the holes 6 and 10. y

13 designates a tying cord, which has a knot 14 in its end, said knotbeing covered with cement or the like as 15, whereby its life isindefinitely prolonged.

16 designates the package, or bundle, as newspapers or the like to betied. In the tying operation, the package or bundle, as tied, is seen inFigure 1, the tying cord 12 after being wrapped around the bundle 15 asindicated in said figure has its extremity 17 after being passed throughthe central opening 6, pulled and passed around the recess 12 and thenpassed under the end 2, thence through the slot 5, and a pull beingexerted thereupon, said end 17 will then engage the apex of the triangleformed by the converging walls 7 and 8 whereby the package will befirmly tied, and the end 17 positively prevented from disenga ementtherefrom. A pull on the end 17 in tie proper direction reverse to thetying operation will untie the cord.

It will now be apparent that I have de vised a novel and useful packagetie, which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable inthe statement of the invention and the above description, and while Ihave, in the present instance, shown and described preferred embodimentsthereof which will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results,it is to be understood that the same are susceptible of modification invarious particulars without departing from the spirit or scope of theinvention or sacrificing any of its advantages within the scope of theappended. claim.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A package tie, comprising a tie body having an oblique slot entering oneedge thereof and terminating near the middle of said body in convergingwalls which extend at an angle to said slot and meet at the apex 9located out of alignment with said slot, and an body opposite to saidoblique slot having a inclined passage 1]. with converging side recesstherein located intei'inedmtely 0t said walls merging into SZLlCl slotand terminatapex and eye.

ing in an eye loceted substantially on the GEORGE V. STOUT. median lineof said body, the diameter of lVitnesses: said eye being greater thanthe Width of said E. HAY\VARD FAIRBANKS,

Jasszw'e at its terminal and the ed 'e of said JOSHUA GRIFFITHS.

